The following is in case you don't know how to respond in a given forum, this checklist will enable you to fit in with the rest of the keyboard commandos.
Car Audio
Posting Form
I am posting for the purpose of:
[ ] Rehashing a topic that was beaten to death two months ago
[ ] Bragging about the size of my package
[ ] Dispersing non-audio content
[ ] Demonstrating a lack of knowledge of punctuation or grammar
(also known as showing I am a super-deaf!!!!!!!,
cold-chillin'!!!!!, super-slamming!!!!! bad-@ss mutha
f**ka!!!!!?????!!!!!!)
[ ] PROVING MY "CAPS LOCK" KEY IS STUCK, AND MY "!" KEY
REPEATS!!!!!!!
[ ] Showing I can't use the Search feature
[ ] Inciting every single other forum member to send a "me too"
message
[ ] Selling overpriced used audio gear.
[ ] Advertising stuff my audio business is selling, despite the
fact that it against forum policy
[ ] Demonstrating that I just got email capability, and boy is it
cool! (or kewl or kewel or whatever)
[ ] Sending a joke that's been around forever
[ ] Complaining about someone else's waste of bandwidth or lack
of audio content while contributing nothing myself.
The subject is:
[ ] Virus (hoax)
[ ] Virus (probably hoax)
[ ] Non-audio joke
[ ] Favorite song to which to annoy neighbors at 3am.
[ ] That kooky, nutty Earl and his Beemer of doom!
[ ] Incorrectly identified on the subject line
[ ] Not related to the body of the message
[ ] How many DB's can I get with........
[ ] How much is my audio gear worth?
[ ] What's a subject?
[ ] Covered by a previous post.
[ ] How my genitals swell with pride at the loudness
of my car and the Jensen componets that lie within.
[ ] Asking, yet again, if anyone as heard of the (not so-)new MASS subs.
I am (check all that apply):
[ ] An athiest
[ ] A democrat
[ ] A 19 year old, still living with my parents and driving my grandmother's car.
[ ] A libertarian
[ ] A republican
[ ] Not registered to vote
[ ] A sixth grade graduate
[ ] Contemplating learning how to spell
[ ] Paying full MRSP for my audio gear.
[ ] Unconcerned that the US government spends more
in an hour than I will make in my lifetime
[ ] Using this list as a forum for furthering my
cause or beliefs
[ ] Other______________
At a local soundoff, I spanked a:
[ ] 97' Mustang w/ 2 12's and 400 watts
[ ] 85' Aerostar with 28 18's and 40000 watts
[ ] 73' Dodge Dart w/shitloads of RF subs driven by a guy named James.
[ ] Dark gray 4-Runner driven by some guy named Mark.
[ ] 96' Porsche sponsered by Xtant
[ ] '73 Pinto sponsored by Kraco
[ ] Myself
[ ] Other _____________
by:
[ ] 2 DB's and 4 SQ points
[ ] 4 DB's and 15 SQ points
[ ] 80 DB's and perfect RTA/SQ score(Meter was spiked and I slipped the RTA/SQ judges a couple grand)
My car is louder than:
[ ]Alma Gate's Bronco.
[ ] John Henry's Van.
[ ] A french poodle's fart
[ ] Everyone else's
My car will make the following DB's:
[ ] 110-120
[ ] 130-140
[ ] 140-160
[ ] 160-180
[ ] Ahhh, who the hell cares, its so freakin’ loud, it’ll knock yo mama on her fat ass!!!!
My car has been metered on the following:
[ ] B&K
[ ] AC
[ ] LX
[ ] WTF?
I got a noise ordinence ticket for:
[ ] Playing John Denver's greatest hits at 140DB's
[ ] Playing DJ Quadmixmaster Bass at 150 DB's in a residential area at 3am.
[ ] Playing anything by the Spice Girls at any volume, any time.
[ ] I am posting from a jail cell
I named my:
[ ] Multimeter
[ ] Right hand
[ ] Head Unit
[ ] Tools
My power wire's color is:
[ ] White
[ ] Black
[ ] Blue
[ ] Yellow
[ ] Red
[ ] All of the above
[ ] Other _____________
[ ] an important determinant of how efficiantly my car can do 140+DB's.
I would like to take your time to flame somebody who :
[ ] is bending the rules of physics in their tech data.
[ ] is new to the forum
[ ] works at Radio Shack
[ ] Installed my gear
[ ] remotely knows that I am a idiot and should posting on Spanky's House of Porno's message board.
[ ] is more knowledgable than me
[ ] has a single spelling error.
[ ] other ____________.
(Insert standard flame here. Non-standard flames are not acceptable.)
[X] My computer will not send mail containing flames directly to the individual; only to the thread.
My favorite song to which to, uh, ahem, ummm, drive is:
[ ] Anything by Vanilla Ice
[ ] By an artist that is so cool I am sure you have not heard of him/her
[ ] I Touch Myself, by the DiVinyls
My stereo:
[ ] Can be heard by cars 1/3 mile in front of or behind me
[ ] Requires several extra alternators on my engine
[ ] Goes to eleven
[ ] Blows a fuse when I attempt to start the car.
I am including:
[ ] Forwarded text not marked with the ">" convention to
designate included text
[ ] The entire post to which I am replying, including
non-relevant content
[ ] The entire digest version of the day's mailings
[ ] The contents of my disk drive
[ ] The contents of our LAN file server
[ ] An archive of the entire Internet
It will be in the following format:
[ ] HTML for those who do not have mail readers capable of it
[ ] One copy each of the same message in Text and HTML
[ ] unencoded
[ ] Audio, video, and other non-text formats
[ ] All of the above, with a few GIFs and JPEGs for good measure
Subscription:
[ ] How do I unsubscribe
[ ] Help! How do I unsubscribe
[ ] How go I get off this list
[ ] I didn't save the first message I received telling me how to
unsubscribe, even though it said to save it
[ ] I didn't read the message at the bottom of each posting I
receive that tells me where to send administrative requests
[ ] Extra copies of how to subscribe/unsubscribe to the list
Soundstream:
[ ] Sucks
[ ] Does not
[ ] Does too
[ ] Does not
[ ] Does too
My subwoofer is:
[ ] The size of a manhole cover
[ ] Bigger than yours
[ ] Is not
[ ] Is too
[ ] Is not
[ ] Mine has four subs!
Me too!!!!:
[ ] I have a MMAT amp too!!!!
[ ] I can hit 160 DB's too!!!!
[ ] I hate Soundstream too!!!!!
[ ] I like the new MASS subs too!!
[ ] My dealer ripped me off too!!!!!
[ ] I blew a fuse too!!!
[ ] I don't want to add useful information or
discussion to this forum either!!!
Miscellaneous items that may be in your ride:
[ ] Enclousre by VT
[ ] MASS subs
[ ] DD'S 9000 series subs
[ ] Magic smoke
[ ] Me too!!!!
[ ] A couple of 15” CV “Strockers”
[ ] How much is a new system?
About This Checklist (must choose one):
[ ] This checklist doesn't apply to me (and I am including
it in its entirety to prove it)
[ ] This checklist offends me (but doesn't apply to me)
[ ] I was touching myself while I surfed the 'net for nudie
pictures and found this form by mistake
Signature:
[ ] HTML for those who do not have email readers capable of it
[ ] Much bigger than my actual post (not counting the entire
thread which I included)
[ ] An audio file
[ ] Racist, sexist, or offensive to certain religions and thier mothers.
This was provided as a precaution to remove your head from your ass when posting on a car audio forum. Sure, there are schumcks out there that you will see posting bullshit information, but that doesn't mean you have to be one of them!!!
